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    Slack introduces new features to ease messaging between business partners – TechCrunch

    Slack is holding its Frontiers conference this week — virtually like everyone else in 2020 — and it’s introducing some new features to make...

    Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging – TechCrunch

    Bespoken Spirits, a Silicon Valley spirits company that has developed a new data-driven process to accelerate the aging of whiskey and create specific flavors,...

    Envisics nabs $50M for its in-car holographic display tech at a $250M+ valuation – TechCrunch

    The jury is still out on what might become the most viable business models for augmented reality technology, but in the meantime a startup...

    Big tech blows a collective raspberry at the House’s antitrust report – TechCrunch

    Big tech has responded to the mammoth antitrust report put out by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee yesterday with blanket denials there’s any monopolistic...

    Shogun raises $35M to help brands take on Amazon with faster and better sites of their own – TechCrunch

    E-commerce has boomed this year, with more businesses and shoppers than ever before turning to websites and apps as a safer, socially distanced alternative...

    White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Trump Rose Garden Event

    On Friday, the Republican National Committee sent the New Jersey Department of Health a list of 206 guests for contact tracing purposes, but the...

    Truecaller tops 250 million users – TechCrunch

    Popular caller-identification service Truecaller has amassed 250 million monthly active users and 200 million daily active users, demonstrating an accelerated pace of growth...

    ‘Don’t Be Afraid of Covid,’ Trump Says, Undermining Public Health Messages

    Mr. Trump, after being in the hospital for three nights, said he was feeling better than he felt 20 years ago. But the president...

    Elvie adds a non-electric breast pump and cups to its growing femtech portfolio – TechCrunch

    Femtech hardware maker Elvie has added a softer, hands-free breast pump that uses natural suction to its portfolio two years after launching its debut...

    What All That Touch Deprivation Is Doing to Us

    Back in June, a few hundred epidemiologists and infectious disease experts interviewed by The New York Times said that it would likely be a...

    Dictionary app Reverso launches desktop app – TechCrunch

    Language learning company Reverso is launching its desktop app for macOS and Windows. Like on mobile, it lets you access a translation dictionary and...

    ‘I Won’t Be Used as a Guinea Pig for White People’

    Ms. Arnold seized the moment. Go door to door with me, she pressed. Talk to folks about Covid-19 safety, about signing up for the...

    How Much Would Trump’s Coronavirus Treatment Cost Most Americans?

    The New York Times is investigating the costs associated with testing and treatment for the coronavirus and how the pandemic is changing health care...

    Helsinki rides the Slush wave toward a booming startup future – TechCrunch

    In September 2020, Helsinki’s City Council approved plans for an expansion of the existing “Maria 01 Campus,” a former downtown hospital complex. Even before...

    India approves Apple partners and Samsung for $143 billion smartphone manufacturing plan – TechCrunch

    Samsung and three major contract manufacturing partners of Apple are among 16 firms to win $6.65 billion incentives under India’s federal plan to...

    Greycroft has rounded up $678 million in capital across two new funds – TechCrunch

    Greycroft, the New York and L.A.-based venture firm founded in 2006 by investors Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow, has closed on two...